Hello i am wondering if someone could please help me out I am having the following problem with the code below. First here is what the script does. I have about 200,000 plus files for which I need to go in a delete/remove the first four lines from. These are logs from a server, long story short for what we are doing wee need to delete the first four lines from the code. The problem that everytime I run the script below I get a OUT OF MEMORY error after the fourth or fifth log file(for the most part the files are under 10mb, but some are as large as 700mb...but I am only trying to remove the first four line from each log file). I am pretty new to perl and programming in general so I don't know if I am using perl to its best capabilities or if there is a better way to do what I am doing. Anyway any help would be appreciated. thanks for the help in advance. 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use File::Find;
use Tie::File;

my $DIRECTORY = $ARGV[0];
find(\&edits, $DIRECTORY);

sub edits() {
    if ( -f and /^33dc01\..*outer.log$/ ) {  
        foreach ( $File::Find::name ) {
            print "$File::Find::name\n";
            tie my @file, 'Tie::File', $File::Find::name or die "Can't
+ tie $File::Find::name $!";
            splice @file, 0, 4;
            untie @file;
        }
    }
}

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